Animal Spirits Podcast

On this week's show we discuss the retirement crisis or lack thereof, average savings rates by generation, the biggest expense super savers cut back on, the Barron's cover curse, how much longer the bull market can last, why dividends aren't as important to the stock market anymore, the cost of borrowing heavily shorted stocks, what happened to the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, retirement accounts 50 years from now and much more.

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On today's episode we discuss how to pay for college on the cheap, why is financial literacy in the U.S. so low, is there ever going to be a solution for the retirement savings crisis, the Netflix model for financial advice, why the financial services industry is like the fast food industry, there are plenty of rich people to go around, the Lyft IPO, how much money would it take to get you off social media for good, why Michael is the Brett Favre of writing about the CAPE ratio, credit card recommendations is a big business, should financial advisors have their own advisor, where the 'Bell' in Tace Bell came from, why The Avengers movie franchise is just like the finance industry and much more.   Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Like us on Facebook And feel free to shoot us an email at [email protected] with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation.

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On this week's show we discuss the yield curve inversion, the Fed vs. the bond market, baby boomers vs. millennials, Kahneman vs. Cialdini, why IPOs are almost always oversubscribed, real estate vs. the stock market, Bitcoin trading volume is fake, new hedge funds vs. old hedge funds, simple vs. complex, behavioral lessons from the blackjack table and much more.

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On today's talk your book we discuss surviving the upside when trying to hedge, the ideal client for hedging, structured product strategies in an ETF wrapper, why complex products require more homework, timing a hedging strategy, how options are impacted by volatility and much more.

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On this week's show we discuss the college admissions bribery scandal, does it matter where you went to college, how the tech companies can help in higher education, CalPERS is making a bigger push into private equity, the expectations gap in retirement, lifestyle creep, how corporate trauma impacts individual stocks, the new Harry Markowitz portfolio is a tad odd, how automation will impact jobs in the future for young people and much more.

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On this edition of Talk Your Book we discuss the low volatility anomaly with Invesco's Nicolas Kalivas. Topics include why low vol isn't as well known as some of the other risk factors, why finance theory doesn't always work in practice, why flows follow performance, behavioral reasons for low vol to persist as an anomaly, why rebalancing matters and much more.

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On today's episode we discuss Bill Gross, the hardest thing to do in the markets, the biggest mistake savers are making, how many workers max out their 401k, how much credit card debt is out there, what would you be willing to give up to get out of debt, how to cut your mortgage payments, why people move and much more.

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The massive rally in stocks, did the Fed turn millennials into socialists, why real estate prices haven't done as well as you think, why have U.S. stocks dominated the last century, how to run a Ponzi Scheme in a post-2008 world, free ETFs, social media trauma, the 80/20 rule in online content, how much is enough for retirement and much more.

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The meaning of work, why so many people are miserable with their career, smartphone addiction, Warren Buffett's latest shareholder letter, the greatest investor you've never heard of, the huge upside potential in a retirement portfolio, the insane rally in stocks since Christmas Eve, True Detective reviews and much more.

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Zillow's new home-flipping venture, putting auto loan delinquencies into perspective, rising student loans for people over the age of 60, why the Internet makes it easier to negotiate, how big your nest egg should be at retirement, when errors cancel each other out in the markets, the fuzzy definition of alpha, misperceptions about tax refunds and much more.

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